page_title: Gerhard Egger Mostrocker
section_title: World-musician (since 1998)
hierarchical_section_title: Gerhard Egger Mostrocker / CV / World-musician (since 1998)
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Gerhard Egger, Riff-Studio Lambach, 2004
context_page_description: Gerhard Egger, is an Austrian songwriter, composer, author and Alpenrockpioneer. He is also known as the "Mostrocker".
context_section_description: 1998, under the motto "Think globally, act locally" Egger composed and produced the "Stadlinger Hymne" (hymn of Stadl-Paura). The result was an album which comprised ten different versions and interpreters from different musical genres (pop, rock, folk, choral and classical music).
  1999, on the occasion of the Weltfest (world festival) of the MIVA he composed the "WeltSong" and performed it together with musicians from Africa, Latin America, Asia and Europe.
  2000, he dedicated Olympic surfing champion Christoph Sieber the Christoph-Sieber-Surfing-Song and performed it at his Olympic-Gala.
  In cooperation with the author Ruth Zizlavsky he wrote a reading and song book for children with the title Rüdiger, der Feuerdrache.
  2002 he was approached by the newspaper Oberösterreichische Nachrichten to set the dialect text of the Franz Stelzhamer-lyrical contest "Segn und Sagn" to music. The result was a CD which was presented at a gala evening at the Landestheater Linz.
  2003 Egger released the album "SchonZeit" with his musical versions of the Stelzhamer poems. After that he went on tour through Austria with his Mostrockern and his new drummer Stefan Hofer.
caption: G. Egger, Riff-Studio Lambach, 2004
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